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machine. In other words, he was not grounded in the over-all, descriptive subject of economics, which is, after all, its greatest contribution to human knowledge. That is, it has those descriptive factors that are a contribution. He had not been introduced to any descriptions of economic processes. He did not even know industrial processes, nor did he really know fiscal processes. He had no understanding of the theories of money.

Later on I discovered that in order to make anything clear to him you had to take it down into terms of a particular human situation where particular human beings were involved. You could say to him something as simple as this, “Now see here, here's a family. It consists of a father, mother, little boy fifteen years old, little girl thirteen, and two little children, seven and eight. That's the family. They live in a certain house. The father works in a certain steel mill and earns so much.” You could give him a concrete human situation and you could describe to him then just how it is that this man gets out of work through no fault of his own and through no fault of his employer.

Before this evening's talk, while I was in New York with him, it was the hardest thing to get him to fully appreciate that it wasn't the fault of the people at the Lackawanna Steel Company, for instance, that there was no